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WE LIVED AND DIED

Contributed by KateGladstone on Monday, 12th September 2005 @ 10:11:52 AM in AEST
Topic: AmericanTragedy

We lived and died by the waterside
For year on famous year -
And our realm decreed, and we all agreed,
That no harm would find us here,
Let our walls decay from day to day,
For they cost so much to mend -
Let flood be the cost of a city lost, for the flood came in the end!

No levees around a city's ground
Can yet restrain the sky -
No child of all the children drowned
Cannot have wondered why -
We can smell our dead in the riverbed,
In the silt where the houses stood -
Let mud be the cost of a city lost, for it drowned the common good!

We knew that water flows downhill,
For we lived by the waterside,
But that the water's flow might fill
The bottom, we denied:
Thus we sold our lives - men, children, wives -
And we called the bargain fair:
Let blood be the cost of a city lost, for in blood we've paid our share!

Copyright © KateGladstone ... [ 2005-09-12 10:11:52]
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Re: WE LIVED AND DIED (User Rating: 1 )
by Skif on Monday, 19th June 2006 @ 03:58:26 PM AEST
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That's impressive. I spent time in New Orleans with the Army, and I think that sums it up pretty well.

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